This is the older version of the hymn. Before the colored glass, before the cathedral, before it came in pieces. Blue and red and gold. It came in rays. Just rays, straight down, through clouds, onto a mountain, onto a Dog who was standing there because it was there and the view was good and everything, as always, was fine.

The Golden Retriever was made for this. For the open book lying in the grass at her feet, its pages blank, waiting. For the light breaking through the storm. For standing somewhere high and looking out and radiating, without trying, a contentment that other creatures have been working toward their entire lives. She is not working toward it. She simply has it. She has always had it.

How Great Thou Bark is a sacred art hymnal series: Dogs rendered as stained glass saints and devotional icons, for the windows they have always deserved.

Soft Gildan 64000 tee, direct-to-garment printed in the USA. For people whose Dog is their whole religion.

Praise Be to Dog. Woof.